When the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction — the congressional super committee — could not agree on budget cuts, the result was that both defense and domestic budgets, including medical research supported by the National Institutes of Health, were destined for massive cuts beginning in 2013.

For an editorial on the danger of federal budget cuts on medical research/discovery, co-authored by Thomas Murray, Ph.D., Creighton associate vice president for health science research, appearing in the Feb. 10, 2012, issue of the Omaha World-Herald, Read more